MINDFULL LEADERS | Νίκος Δρανδάκης

Nikos Drandakis is an entrepreneur, founder of Flyway and previously the founder of Beat (formerly known as Taxibeat), a leading mobile ride-hailing application.

With a technical background and an entrepreneurial mindset, Nikos founded his first tech startup in the late ’90s, followed by many other projects. His first startup was suppline.com, a B2B marketplace helping businesses order their supplies online. Within two years, suppline.com was acquired. In 2006, Nick launched sync.gr, a blog aggregator and social networking app for bloggers, which was active until 2009.

In 2011, Nikos along with three co-founders, launched Taxibeat. In February 2017, Taxibeat was acquired by Daimler. Following the acquisition, Taxibeat was rebranded and is now known as “Beat”. The company is active in Athens, Greece; Lima, Perú; Santiago, Chile; and Bogotá, Colombia and serves almost a million rides per day..

Nikos served as the CEO at Beat until August 2020 when he left the company on an 800-employee scale and hundreds of millions in annual revenue. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Flyway, a propetch company which is the smart way for anyone to own a luxury second home, on their budget.